Driving a Stretched Peterbilt

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Chinatown, Jan 11, 2025.

  1. SmallPackage

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    Lol. This thread is ridiculous and funny. Needing that space to turn ain’t got nothing to do with long wb. It was tight turn regardless. Look how all the other “real” easy to turn short wb trucks drug the trailer axles and tires off the road and into the dirt all the way to the rail road tracks tearing crap up. This kid did not. Thats good in my book.
     
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    Or drive with a know it all style. Lol
     
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    Same. I know you being from were you are you’ve got to watch the guys running I-10 in Lousyanna bouncing 6” out of there aired up seats grinnin’ ear to ear. Lol
     
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    Most of the guys that don’t understand long trucks are from the east. Long wb trucks were norm in west. My dad lived in New Jersey up thru high school becsuse my grand father was flying for Twa out of New York back then. He always told me storys about the first time they would see the big, long red PIE Peterbilt trucks first make their way over in them parts. No one knew that big was possible back then.
     
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    The cool truck almost makes up for the sanitarium haircut. Almost
     
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    Laziness and not feeling like waiting for someone to come out so you take the turn the right way has a little to do with that, IMHO.
     
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    I'm not sure I understand the small steering wheel fad. Otherwise, he done well
     
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    Needs a 22” 3-spoke. :)
     
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    There's probably more than a few that couldn't fit behind those :rolleyes:
     
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    We had a guy who couldn’t drive our L-model Fords for that reason. :biggrin_25523:
     
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